A neighbor of ours had a Volt and he loved it. To me Hybrids would be more realistic because at least you don't have to worry about running out of juice or the length of your drives and for local driving he was charging it with a normal outlet. Plus he said in the winter it used the gas engine to bring the heat up. But it shows how biast they are against anything that burns fuel when they push so hard for EVs.
Oh, and he was spending a fraction of what just one of my fill ups cost a year on gas so it's not like that was polluting.